UK-based luxury apparel and accessories company Burberry has won a legal case against leathergoods and furniture company Marco Leather for infringing its trademark rights.

Burberry claimed Marco Leather had imported and sold over 100,000 counterfeit handbags, wallets and goods bearing the Burberry check and Prorsum equestrian knight.

Marco Leather also registered a copyright consisting of a variation of the equestrian knight superimposed over the Burberry check, and was attempting to register the equestrian knight as a trademark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

Marco Leather submitted to a court order to abandon the trademark application for the equestrian knight logo, assign the copyright registration for the check & equestrian knight to Burberry, abandon all rights and appeals related to goods seized by US Customs and any other law enforcement agencies, make a payment to Burberry of $100,000 in damages and cease the use of the equestrian knight and check, and all marks that could be considered ‘confusingly similar’.

Marco Leather refused to admit any liability.